Category:5.0

Active Worlds Version 5.0 began development in 2008 and was officially released in December, 2009. The update boasted unicode support and powerpoint presentations, as well as many other improvements and features that are listed below. The AWGate was also updated and opened to coincide with the release of 5.0 in the Active Worlds Universe.

New Features in 5.0

• Redesigned user interface.
• International Language Support using Unicode character sets throughout the system.
• Major improvements to VoIP, in particular when used for a bigger audience of 400 and more simultaneous participants.
• Added capability to login using a unique email address. No other citizen can have the same email address in order to login with the supplied email address. The entered email address must confirm to RFC standards using standard ASCII characters only. Citizennames must not contain the at-sign @.
• Improved Comic Style Chat Bubbles
• New transfer (Xfer) server, handling slide shows and file transfer.
• Embedded tools to preapre and present Slide Shows.
• Added functionalty for prepared slide shows to the server and the browser-SDK, enabling display in world or presenation items like PowerPoint, Excel files and any files that are displayed on the host's computer.
• Added rendering movies and web pages in the 3D viewport window.
• Laser Beam for presentations.
• Emoticons for voice chat.
• Smooth transitions when light and fog properties are changed.
• Cache Management.
• Web favorites.
• New ActiveX control.
• Multi-Instance capable client browser.